Delirium Management: Learning Resource ePoster for Aged Care AINs

This assignment is a learning resource in the form of an ePoster designed for Aged Care Assistants in Nursing (AINs) focusing on delirium management. The ePoster aims to educate AINs on the symptoms of delirium in elderly adults and effective management processes, with the goal of improving their clinical practice. The ePoster addresses the learning need by presenting key information concisely with graphics and case studies to engage adult learners. It develops a PICO question to identify the target population and relevant interventions, such as the day/night cycle, based on evidence-based literature. The ePoster is structured to help AINs understand delirium symptoms, utilize effective interventions, and improve their quality of service by applying the learned knowledge in their daily care of patients with delirium. The resource includes references to support its evidence-based approach.

Navigating Transitions 2018: Assessment 2 – Learning Resource ePoster
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Navigating Transitions Assessment Task 2: Learning Resource – ePoster template
Title of eposter:
Student Name: Guransh Bhandari Student Number: 12108369
Intended Audience: Aged care AINs.
Audience Learning Objectives (25 words or less): identified through evidence-based research of what your intended audience needs to
learn, references provided
The learning objectives include-
 Understand the common symptoms of delirium within elder adults.
 Identify effective process to manage patients with delirium.
 Transfer the knowledge into clinical practice.
Purpose of eposter in addressing the identified learning need (500 words): How does the workbook address the intended
learning outcomes and provide a benefit to learning for the intended audience? Consider how to engage an adult learner in a reading and writing
task (use graphics, case studies, etc). This should be evidence based an include 5 high quality sources of evidence.
Delirium is one of the most severe acute neuropsychiatric syndromes that plays an important role in
cognitive dysfunction globally. Study has indicated that among the hospitalized patients, delirium affects
approximately 14 to 56% elderly patients (Nydahl et al., 2017). In addition, nearly about 12.5 million people
aged over 65 years hospitalized per year for delirium (Inouye, Westendorp & Saczynski, 2014). Thus, it can
be said that the older people are the most vulnerable group for delirium. On the other hand, the aged care
AINs or Assistant in Nursing play a central role in the care of elderly people. They works in the nursing
homes, hospitals, residential facilities and home care service to provide adequate care and support the
elderly people suffering from various health issues (Morilla-Herrera et al., 2016). As the elderly people are
more vulnerable to delirium, the aged care AINs have been chosen as the intended audience for this
assignment.
In order to provide effective care service to the elder adults with delirium while ensuring quality of the
service and patient safety it is important for the AINs to gather knowledge about the illness. It would help
them to understand and identify the symptoms and introduce effective strategies to manage such patients
in an effective manner (Nydahl et al., 2017). There are various way to provide information to the intended
audience and involve an adult learner in the reading and writing task. However, learning concepts from
poster is one of the most interesting way to gather information and inform a learner about the topic. This is
because poster represents key information briefly with some interesting pictures or graphics that attract the
mind of the learner and make the learning process more interesting. Such key information regarding the
topic helps the learner to understand the key concept of the topic and pictures or graphics help to
encourage the learners to involve in the reading and writing tasks (Billings & Halstead, 2015).
This assignment focuses to inform the aged care AINs about delirium management. In this regards the
poster will develop a PICO question and identify relevant literatures to answer the PICO question in an
effective manner. Developing PICO question would help the learners to identify the target population for
the illness and use an effective intervention to achieve positive health outcomes while comparing the
interventions with other treatment process (Bubalo, 2018). For example, in this particular poster developed
for the assignment the effectiveness of day/night cycle will be discussed. The poster would help the learner
to learn about the common symptoms of delirium within elder adults. The information from the evidence-
based literatures would help to identify the effectiveness of day/night cycle and the way of utilizing the
intervention to reduce delirium and manage patients with delirium (Billings & Halstead, 2015). In addition
the learning resource would help to identify the current practice based on day/night cycle to manage

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delirium. Hence the aged care AINs would utilize the knowledge while providing care to patient with
delirium and improve their quality of service (Bubalo, 2018). In this way all the learning outcomes for the
aged care AINs will be achieved through the information provided by the e-poster.
Attach eposter as Appendix to this Template (1000 words)

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